#xiyao au where jgy is a newly high-promoted business man and lxc is a high-class escort

jgy's circle all has wives or girlfriends half their ages and are very passive aggressive abt how all jgy ever does is work and kiss boss' ass, so he doesn't have time for anything else. "probably that's how he got the promotion", they whisper when they think jgy is far enough

jgy tries dating, but no one ever catches his attention enough to go on a second date. he feels like none of the blind dates have either the same interests nor do they have an understanding of each other.

it's either that or jgy is just self-sabotaging himself, who knows haha f*ck. okay, jgy does know, he definitely does. but when people around you all just seem to get close to you just to find your weaknesses and then use them to hurt you where it hurts most... he is allowed to.

so he takes his trust issues and forgets about dating, it's just not for him, he doesn't have time anyway bc he needs to take care of his career and he will just try to date when he has more time and doesn't have to work 25/8

it isn't until some important work party that he can't get out of, he is expected to make an appearance, and so he starts to Panic. because every time he came to those events, it felt as if all of his senior co-workers were trying to make barely veiled jabs at him

it always starts with innocent questions about how he should bring his girlfriend, why is he alone here, oh he doesn't have one, that must be sad, and lonely, is he doing okay, he is probably frustrated, and bitter, is he taking it out on his subordinates haha

oh he is probably working way too much for a girlfriend, no one would want to date a workaholic that doesn't have time to see them, haha remember how he always wins project bids haha he spends so much time talking with the boss that's why they both started thinking alike and

how he must know what the boss wants, maybe jgy and the boss should start dating eo hahahahahaha

and jgy is so tired of hearing his co-workers constantly Talk, stupid lazy mfs who never do their own work and only ever depend on their subordinates, who would never be able to finish projects on their own. F them!!! but thinking this doesn't help, he is still anxious to go

so he thinks again abt dating, but quickly crosses out this idea. it's only a couple weeks before the event that he remembers his ex co-worker xy. jgy asked him how he met xxc and xy, with a smirk on his face, simply answered "oh him, he is an escort, isn't he just the prettiest"

jgy only replied "yes, of course" and politely doesn't ask any more questions, even though xy looked as if he wouldn't mind, ready for more. and now that jgy thinks... he should ask. now it would be too weird to reach out to xy and ask Just abt this, he just can't

so he thinks about it all day, and when he gets home, he tries to calm his breath and opens a search engine. he looks through the first pages, but they all look a bit suspicious to him, or cheap, and he worries. he decides to do more research on that and goes through forums

it takes him a good few hours before he gathers enough information and opens the site that was spoken of the best. the site isn't as flashy as the ones he saw before, neither too lewd. it looks elegant and trustworthy, unsuspecting to an eye that didn't know what it's looking at

he registers an account and goes through a few security checks, and then. then he doesn't know what to do anymore. he suddenly feels like a fool